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Har! Har! Har!

By
Schuyler Gould
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 — Issue 196

RE: “After Fukushima, another anniversary” [Letters, March 22]:

Ted Jordon is so funny comparing the risk of same-design baseballs to that of same-design nuclear reactors. Har! Har! Har!

I'm sure they're rolling on the ground in Fukushima. Well, not their ground; they've been evacuated.

Here's another one - this just happened. The power supplying the pumps cooling four of the spent fuel pools at Fukushima failed, and they don't know why! Har! Har! Har!

Don't worry about it, they said, we've got it under control! Har! Har! Har!

Turns out they think it was a rat in the fuse box, but they still don't know. Har! Har! Har! Rest. Har! Har! Har!

I'm dying here.

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